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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result of service conforms to specified requirements.






2. Communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and address issues as they occur






3. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






4. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






5. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






6. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






7. A method of estimating a component of work. the work is decomposed into more detail. an estimate is prepared of what is needed to meet the requirements of each of the lower - more detailed pieces of work - and these estimates are then aggregated into






8. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






9. Describes how the project management team will implement the performing organizations quality plan.






10. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






11. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






12. Depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system






13. Analytical technique to determine the essential features and relationships of components in the project management plan to establish a reserve for the schedule duration - budget - estimated cost or funds for a project






14. Analytical technique that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. it is a method of determining the variance from a baseline parameter by using prior progress reporting periods data and projecting how much th






15. An entry in the work breakdown structure that can be at any level






16. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.






17. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






18. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






19. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






20. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






21. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






22. The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure component or any schedule activity






23. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






24. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






25. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






26. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s






27. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






28. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives






29. Schematic display of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities. drawn from left to right.






30. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






31. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






32. The date up to or through which the project's reporting system has provided actual status and accomplishments. also called as-of date and time-now date.






33. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






34. The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact






35. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






36. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






37. Documents utilized in bid and proposal activities - which include the buyer's invitation for bid - invitation for negotiations - request for information - request for quotation - request for proposal and sellers responses






38. Processes required to track - review and regulate the progress and performance of the project - identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes.






39. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






40. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






41. Budgeted cost of work scheduled






42. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






43. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






44. Document that establishes criteria and activities for developing and controlling the project schedule






45. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






46. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






47. The document that describes the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; wan who is responsible for providing each type of communic






48. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






49. Graphic display of schedule related information.






50. Document used to record and describe or denote selected items identified during execution of a process or activity